Announcing the Fivetran dbt Package for Shopify
Use our latest dbt package to unlock your Shopify data and power customer analytics.
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September 2020
Media Buying Is a Data Integration Game
Let's talk media buying in the data age.
Join Data For a Holistic View of Your Business
Scribe Media and Grocery TV share how they join data to determine job costing, cash forecasting, executive reporting, revenue sharing and more.
2020 Cloud Data Warehouse Benchmark: Redshift, Snowflake, Presto and BigQuery
The Fivetran data warehousing benchmark compares price, performance and differentiated features for BigQuery, Presto, Redshift and Snowflake.
Introducing Fivetran dbt Transformations
Fivetran introduces our native integration with dbt to run your transformation models hosted in Github directly from our application!
Ziff Davis Analyzes Ad & Website Data
With a modern data stack, Ziff Davis centralizes Google Analytics 360 and ad data to gain insights into paid search performance.
Databases Demystified Lesson 10: Query Planning and Optimization
In this lesson, we talk about what a query planner is and does in the database. We talk about the difference between declarative and imperative programming languages, and we wrap up with a discussion of some common strategies for database optimization to improve query speed.
Pet Circle Improves Customer Experience Through Data
Fivetran integrates MariaDB data into BigQuery, enabling Australia’s largest ecommerce pet store to understand and improve its customer journey.
Build vs. Buy Data Pipelines: An Illustrated Guide
Consider these comparisons before you try to build your own data pipeline
Why You Should Be Analyzing Your Marketing Stack
Enterprises are reaching strides in Marketing, but are these companies reaping the rewards of unified data analysis?
Data Engineers Don't Want to do ETL
Automate the process of building and maintaining data pipelines to free up data engineers for more interesting, mission-critical projects.
Announcing the Fivetran dbt Package for Zendesk Support
Refine customer success data modeling with more detailed ticket tracking
ASICS Focuses on Digital Innovation, Not ELT
With Fivetran handling ELT, ASICS Digital engineers spend time on data science and machine learning projects to propel the business forward.
Episode 9: Introduction to Indexes
In this episode, we learn about a very important technique for making database queries faster: indexes! Indexes are a very powerful technique and are critical to understanding how databases work under the hood. In this lesson we talk about how database indexes make use of the binary search algorithm to speed up queries. We also cover the trade-offs associated with using database indexes, and why it might not be a good idea to use too many indexes.
What is Idempotence?
Idempotence is an important characteristic of many systems, including Fivetran. Learn what it means.